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Up for sale a RARE! "Curator of Paleobotany" David White Hand Written Letter Dated 1908.
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Charles David White (July 1, 1862 –
February 7, 1935), who normally went by his middle name, was an American geologist, born in Palmyra, New York. He
graduated from Cornell University in
1886, and in 1889 became a member of the United States Geological
Survey. Eventually, he rose to be chief geologist. In 1903 he became
an associate curator of paleobotany at the Smithsonian Institution.
He wrote numerous papers on geological and paleontological subjects. The David White House, his home for 15 years, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
He made one of the most comprehensive
studies on the Glossopteris Flora,
the main component of the fossil deposits of mineral coal in Brazil. David White won the Thompson Medal in
1931 and the Walcott Medal in
1934. He was president of the Geological Society of
America in 1923. He "himself considered that his
structure-carbon ratio for the occurrence of oil and gas was his greatest
scientific achievement."
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